Great site. Very self explanatory. I like that it removes all the hassles of creating, saving, and distributing spread sheets. Definately bookmarking this one.
Yeah, I decided to make it case insensitive to avoid confusion. It seems most non-techies aren't aware of the GB vs gb distinction (and not to mention the uber-geeks who insist on gibi and kibi and all that :) )
If you want gigabits, you can explicitly write "gbit":
Hey guys, this is Kalid from instacalc. Thanks for the link -- please send any feedback/bug reports to kalid@instacalc.com and have fun playing around with it.
I'm actually in YC this summer on another project with some friends, we'll let you know when it's launched :)
Thanks for the info. Yeah, I was surprised how quickly the spammers found my little old site. Nofollow is a great suggestion. I may need to add captchas as well.
i tried: R7: 384 kbit/sec in GB/month
then using the result from R7: R7/1mb
the calculation will not use the quantity type of R7 which is GB, but only the number. trying to use: R7 in GB will again not use the right quantity for my result..
Very nice. But it doesn't have one of my favourite google calculator features: built-in physical constants -- things like "speed of light", "electron mass", "permittivity of free space", "planck's constant" and so forth.
I realize I'm in a bit of a niche here, but that's a very useful feature for me.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll consider adding them in. Ideally I'd like to make a plugin system where people can enter and share their crazy formulae & constants.
1 pint in cubic cm, sure. Cubic meters, no problem. Cubic knots, even cubic rods, anything you want.
But cubic acres? Now that's just getting crazy. Acres measure area, so not exactly sure what a "cubic acre" would be. I suppose it could be a cube with 1 acre each side, but man, that's pushing it :).
1) You need more units! Especially physical units, erg, joule, etc.
2) The interface is too slow on my mac camino browser.
3) Play a little with Frink. In terms of calculations, frink is awesome. However, the plotting and the shared aspect of instacalc is very cool... perhaps you can merge the two?
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[ 672 ms ] story [ 811 ms ] threadThis silly thing couldn't even calculate this, something that Google calc does perfectly:
http://www.google.com/search?q=the+answer+to+life%2C+the+uni...
I purposefully disabled charts on the embedded versions to save bandwidth (about 100kb of javascript), but I plan to add it in.
For the curious, there's a GPL project, 'qalculate', which could be used as the basis for similar calculator services.
http://instacalc.com/?d=&c=KDFUQi8xTUIpIHNlY29uZHMgaW4gZ...
I'm not tracking the implicit unit conversion (1TB/ 100 Mbps)... yet :)
If you want gigabits, you can explicitly write "gbit":
http://instacalc.com/?d=&c=MSBnYiBpbiBtYml0fDEgZ2IgaW4gb...
Thanks again for all the feedback guys!
I'm actually in YC this summer on another project with some friends, we'll let you know when it's launched :)
Instacalc is one hell of a "thing you built" for getting into YC.
are you aware that you're getting spammed?
why don't have rel=nofollow in place for links?
Nice catch
I realize I'm in a bit of a niche here, but that's a very useful feature for me.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pints+per++cubic+ac...
1 pint in cubic cm, sure. Cubic meters, no problem. Cubic knots, even cubic rods, anything you want.
But cubic acres? Now that's just getting crazy. Acres measure area, so not exactly sure what a "cubic acre" would be. I suppose it could be a cube with 1 acre each side, but man, that's pushing it :).
1) You need more units! Especially physical units, erg, joule, etc.
2) The interface is too slow on my mac camino browser.
3) Play a little with Frink. In terms of calculations, frink is awesome. However, the plotting and the shared aspect of instacalc is very cool... perhaps you can merge the two?